Book Of The Dead: By Jamie Russell

Blurb.
AMAZON.

When there's no more room in hell...

One of cinema's most enduring monsters, the zombie has been terrifying audiences around the world for decades. Book Of The Dead charts the ghoulish history of zombie cinema, from the creature's origins in Haitan voodoo and its cinematic debut in 1932s White Zombie (IMDB), right up to recent blockbuster hits like 28 days later (imdb), Shaun Of The Dead (imdb) and Land Of The Dead (imdb).

Covering hundreds of movies from America, Europe and Asia, this extensive history chronicles the zombie's on-screen evolution from Caribbean bogeyman to flesh-eating corpse. Along the way, Book Of The Dead takes in Bela Lugosi B-movies, Italian Gore films, blind monk-zombies, shot-on-video backyard epics, all-time classics such as I Walked With A Zombie, Night Of The Living Dead (IMDB) and Dawn Of The Dead (IMDB) and the videogame phenomenon of Resident Evil (WIKI).

Complete with hundreds of stills and artwork including 64 stunning pages of colour illustrations, and an exhaustive filmography, Book Of The Dead explains why we continue to be so fascinated by these fugitives from the undertaker.

...the dead will walk the earth.

I used this book to help me extensivly with my zombie research, it gives valuable information about a range of zombie horror films created from a wide variety of artistic views.

The chapters include:

Caribbean Terrors.

The Zombie Goes To Hollywood

Down And Out On Poverty Row

Atomic Interlude

Bringing It All Back Home

Dawn Of The Dead

Splattar Horror

Twilight Of The Dead

Zombie Filmography